Word: bombings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...lifetime prison sentences for Nelson Mandela and five other ANC leaders, but Slovo had managed to flee South Africa a month before the others were arrested. He has lived in exile ever since. In 1982, his wife Ruth First, also a prominent Communist, was killed by a parcel bomb allegedly planted by Pretoria's agents...
...times bloodshed seemed to be war-torn Lebanon's only certainty. A powerful car bomb killed 15 people and injured 80 in a suburb of Muslim West Beirut as the week began. The moderate Shi'ite Amal militia blamed the blast on the Palestine Liberation Organization, which was driven out of Beirut during the 1982 Israeli invasion, and is now trying to make a comeback. Battles raged throughout the week between Amal militiamen and Palestinian fighters. In Beirut a relentless Amal blockade of Palestinian camps forced thousands of starving residents to adopt extreme measures to feed themselves...
...Houston jury ordered Texaco to pay Pennzoil an incredible $10.5 billion to settle their legal battle over a 1984 merger fight, many experts were convinced that the landmark judgment would be drastically reduced on appeal. But so far Texaco's lawyers have been unable to defuse this financial time bomb that threatens the survival of the third largest U.S. oil company. A Texas court of appeals last week upheld a staggering $8.5 billion of the original judgment...
...Glori park, where they found the spot under a tree at which the terrorists hid four Kalashnikov machine guns and 15 hand grenades used in the airport attack. The safety plugs for the grenades were still there. He also directed authorities to Paris' Montparnasse Cemetery, where they found a bomb timing device in a toothpaste tube inside a mausoleum...
...onetime Chilean army captain last week confessed to taking part in a murder, but he also suggested that Chilean President Augusto Pinochet may have been involved. On Sept. 21, 1976, former Chilean Ambassador Orlando Letelier, a Pinochet foe, was killed in Washington when a bomb exploded under...